Melanohalea zopheroa is a species of lichen in the family Parmeliaceae.

[2] A year later, he transferred it to the new genus Melanelia, which he created to contain the brown Parmeliae species.

[3] In 2004, after early molecular phylogenetic evidence showed that Melanelia was not monophyletic,[4][5][6] Melanohalea was circumscribed by lichenologists Oscar Blanco, Ana Crespo, Pradeep K. Divakar, Esslinger, David L. Hawksworth and H. Thorsten Lumbsch, and M. zopheroa was transferred to it.

[4] The lichen has a disjunct distribution, as it is found in South America (Chile) and in New Zealand.

[7] David Galloway and Per Magnus Jørgensen have suggested that Melanohalea zopheroa is a sorediate counterpart of the New Zealand species Melanelia inactiva.