''Banisia aldabrana'' is a species of moth of the family

Thyrididae The Thyrididae comprise the family of picture-winged leaf moths. They are the only family in the superfamily Thyridoidea, which sometimes has been included in the Pyraloidea, but this isn't supported by cladistic analysis. Most species live in t ...

. It is found in the

Seychelles Seychelles (, ; ), officially the Republic of Seychelles (french: link=no, République des Seychelles; Creole: ''La Repiblik Sesel''), is an archipelagic state consisting of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city, V ...

on the islands of

Aldabra Aldabra is the world's second-largest coral atoll, lying south-east of the continent of Africa. It is part of the Aldabra Group of islands in the Indian Ocean that are part of the Outer Islands of the Seychelles, with a distance of 1,120 k ...

, Menai and Cosmoledo and in

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

. The forewings of this species are light fuscous brown, tinged with rufous and uniformly striated with darker brown. The female is wholly suffused with brick red. Their wingspan is 15 to 18 mm.Fryer, 1912. The Lepidoptera of Seychelles and Aldabra. - Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (2)15(Zool.)(1):21-22; pl.1 fig.18

Subspecies

*''Banisia aldabrana aldabrana'' (from Seychelles) *''Banisia aldabrana cana'' Whalley, 1971 (South Africa)

References

Thyrididae Moths described in 1912 Moths of Africa Moths of Seychelles {{Thyrididae-stub