page_title: Pachetra
section_title: Biology
hierarchical_section_title: Pachetra / Biology
caption_attribution_description: English: Ranscombe Farm Nature Reserve near Cuxton, Kent on The North Downs Way. Here is the track descending from the dip slope clay tops, to the chalky soil of the Bush Valley, a bourne that leads to the Medway. The path is white due to the poor chalky soil, but this soil is full of flint.
context_page_description: Pachetra is a monotypic moth genus of the family Noctuidae erected by Achille Guenée in 1841. Its only species, Pachetra sagittigera, the feathered ear, was first described by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1766. It is found in central and southern Europe, east to the Ural, north to southern England, Sweden and Finland. Southwards it is found from Anatolia, central Asia and the Altai up to Mongolia. It is also present in North Africa.
context_section_description: Adults are on wing from May to July. There is one generation per year.
  Larva grey brown, mottled with dark; dorsal line yellowish, black edged; a series of oblique brown subdorsal stripes; lateral lines narrowly brown. The larvae feed on various grasses, including Festuca ovina, Poa and Gramineae species.
caption: Habitat in England
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