Paidia minoica is a moth of the family Erebidae.

The habitat consists of forest fringes, wide forest clearings and fringes of shrubland on rocky soils at altitudes ranging from the lowlands to 1,400 meters above sea-level.

Adults are on wing from May to June and again in October in the lowlands.

At higher elevations, adults are on wing from late July to late September.

The species is named from the mythological King Minos.