Pasiphila melochlora

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| image = Pasiphila melochlora female.jpg

| image_caption = Female

| image2 = Pasiphila melochlora male.jpg

| image2_caption = Male

| taxon = Pasiphila melochlora

| authority = (Meyrick, 1911){{cite web |last=Yu |first=Dicky Sick Ki |url=http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=82881948 |title=Pasiphila melochlora (Meyrick 1911) |website=Home of Ichneumonoidea |publisher=Taxapad |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325031513/http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=82881948 |archive-date=25 March 2016 |accessdate=14 May 2013}}

| synonyms = *Chloroclystis melochlora Meyrick, 1911

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Pasiphila melochlora is a moth in the family Geometridae. It is endemic to New Zealand.[http://www.nzor.org.nz/names/5f8230bc-d650-4eed-8d0f-50b97ad01433 New Zealand Organisms Register] Retrieved 5 April 2017.

The larvae usually feed on New Zealand-native broom species, but have also been reported feeding on the foliage of Clianthus maximus.E. K. Cameron, [https://bts.nzpcn.org.nz/site/assets/files/22905/abj60_2_2005-129-30-kakabea.pdf Kakabeak under attack]

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