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.

is a rarer form in which the median and marginal areas are both reddish brown; — pyrenaica Oberth.

], from the Pyrenees, is a melanic form in which the forewings are suffused all over with blackish grey; — bombycina Ev., from the Ural Mts., is smaller and darker, with the median and submedian veins finely white; both the upper stigmata much smaller, white edged, the reniform not kidney shaped but narrow with the white lateral edges parallel, the lower end flat, not curved, and according to Eversmann running inwards along the median vein; on the other hand ab.

The larvae feed on various grasses, including Festuca ovina, Poa and Gramineae species.