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''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 Species description, first described by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1766. It is found in central and southern Europe, east to the Ural (region), Ural, north to southern England, Sweden and Finland. Southwards it is found from Anatolia, central Asia and the Altai Mountains, Altai up to Mongolia. It is also present in North Africa. Technical description and variation The wingspan is 32–45 mm. Forewing grey suffused with darker grey and brown; claviform stigma variable in size, blackish; upper stigmata large, white edged with grey centres, sometimes wholly white: submarginal line diffusely pale, preceded by black wedge-shaped marks; hindwing dirty grey, with darker cellspot, postmedian line, and submarginal cloud; in ''vestigialis'' Esp. there is a prominent white patch at base of costa of forewing; — ''ravida' ...
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Pachetra Sagittigera Larva
''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 Species description, first described by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1766. It is found in central and southern Europe, east to the Ural (region), Ural, north to southern England, Sweden and Finland. Southwards it is found from Anatolia, central Asia and the Altai Mountains, Altai up to Mongolia. It is also present in North Africa. Technical description and variation The wingspan is 32–45 mm. Forewing grey suffused with darker grey and brown; claviform stigma variable in size, blackish; upper stigmata large, white edged with grey centres, sometimes wholly white: submarginal line diffusely pale, preceded by black wedge-shaped marks; hindwing dirty grey, with darker cellspot, postmedian line, and submarginal cloud; in ''vestigialis'' Esp. there is a prominent white patch at base of costa of forewing; — ''ravida' ...
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