Sabatinca aenea, also known as the Banks Peninsula Metallic, is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae.

This species prefers moist semi-shaded habitat and the adults are on the wing from the start of October until the middle of December.

This species was described by George Hudson in 1923 using a specimen collected by Stewart Lindsay at Governor's Bay in Canterbury.

The fore-wings have the costa strongly arched near the base, the apex acute and the termen oblique; pale golden-ochreous with black markings; a small blotch on costa at base; a broad strongly-curved band extending from costa at 1⁄4 half way to tornus; a second band shorter and straighter, from costa before middle to disk; a short, much narrower band from costa beyond middle; a series of slender blackish markings around outer third of costa, termen, and in disk beyond middle; a broad cloudy blackish patch on dorsum, extending half way from base to tornus; between the black markings much of the ground colour has faint whitish reflections which tend to form pale transverse bands; the cilia are golden-ochreous with blackish bars.

The hindwings are dark grey with strong purple reflections; the cilia are pale golden-ochreous, becoming blackish near the body.