''Banisia tibiale'' is a

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

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 ...

Marianne Island Marianne Island is a small Granitic Seychelles, granitic island of the Seychelles. in size, it is located 3.8 km ESE of Félicité Island. The island was a former coconut plantation, and on the western side of the island is a long beach. The ...

and

Silhouette Island Silhouette Island lies northwest of Mahé in the Seychelles. It is the third largest granitic island in the Seychelles. It has an area of 20.1 km2 and has a population of 200, mostly workers on the island. The main settlement is La Passe ...

. This moths remembers ''

Banisia myrtaea ''Banisia myrtaea'' is a species of moth of the family Thyrididae. It was first described by Dru Drury in 1773 from Madras. Description Upper side: antennæ brown and setaceous. Palpi, head, neck, thorax, abdomen, and wings reddish flesh-colou ...

'' (Drury, 1773) from which it can be distinguished by the swollen hind tibiae of the male. Their wingspan is .Fryer, 1912. The Lepidoptera of Seychelles and Aldabra. - Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (2)15(Zool.)(1):20-21; pl.1 fig.16

References

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