The species concept in the animal world is very abstract. With diverse methods scientists try to place boundaries between species. But this is generally theoretical. Indeed species are in continuous evolution, located more regularly between two evolutionary categories than inside a well-defined one. In this study we are interested by the courtship of two allopatric subspecies of the Alpine newt, Triturus alpestris alpestris and T. a. cyreni. We investigate the behaviour of two closely related taxa, in experimental conditions, to display the basis of behaviour evolution and isolating mechanisms prominently. We have identified 24 behaviours in the male display and principally 3 in the female (negative, static, positive). Sexual encounter will be divided in four stages: orientation during which animals are meeting, fan and lean-in exhibition phases during which the male displays and the spermatophore transfer sequence where the male deposits a spermatophore and displays also. The qualitative differences between subspecies are weak and concern principally amplitude of movements. From a qualitative level some differences were underlined. So T. a. alpestris touches the female with its snout frequently, whereas T. a. cyreni whips more often. The two subspecies do not use the same tactic with a non-responsive female. Indeed the T. a. alpestris male can easily enter in spermatophore transfer phase without the positive response of female. In order to attract the latter, he executes worm-like movements: in this way he lures a negative female. On the contrary, T. a. cyreni rarely deposits a spermatophore when the female is not receptive. It therefore makes very little use of the lure system. The analysis of male behaviours in relation with female response have allowed us to establish a model which assumes that some behaviours are exhibited by the male only when its motivation and that of the female go beyond a particular level. Some stereotyped behaviours (e.g. distal fan) concern movements whose amplitude is variable. We ...