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Original article Phenotypic and genetic variability of morphometrical traits in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster and D simulans. II. Within-population variability P Capy, E Pla, JR David Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire de Biologie et Genetique Evolutives, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France (Received 30 March 1993; accepted 10 August 1993) Summary - Within-population variability was investigated in the 2 sibling species Drosophila mela!nogaster and D simulans at both phenotypic and genetic levels. Six quantitative traits were studied in 55 different populations of D melanogaster and 25 populations of D simulans encompassing most of the cosmopolitan range of the 2 species. The phenotypic variabilities of all the traits were compared using the coefficients of variation (CV). Differences among CV’s were broader than expected from their theoretical sampling distribution. Temperate populations were generally less variable than tropical ones. Moreover, in both species, the CVof the 3 size-related traits (fresh weight, wing length and thorax length) were correlated. Comparison of the 2 species showed that the variabilities values of were almost identical with the average (mean Ct! exception of ovariole number which is much less variable in D simulans (6% against 8%). At the genetic level, distributions of intraclass correlations did not show any departure from the expected sampling distributions, suggesting that all populations harbored a similar amount of genetic variability. For most traits, no significant difference was found between the 2 species, except again for the ovariole number which is genetic