Meterana pascoei is a moth in the family Noctuidae, endemic to New Zealand.

[1] The name and description were published as Morrisonia pascoei by William George Howes in 1912.

[2] In 1928, in his book The Butterflies and moths of New Zealand, George Vernon Hudson discussed this species, placing it within the genus Melanchra and edited the epithet to "pascoi".

[3] John S. Dugdale also used the epithet "pascoi" and proposed several new synonyms for this species in his 1988 publication Lepidoptera - annotated catalogue, and keys to family group taxa.

[5][6][7][8] The extra "e" added in Howes's original paper may have arisen from "Pascoe" being a more common form of the surname.