Davara caricae
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| taxon = Davara caricae
| authority = (Dyar, 1913){{cite web |url=http://globiz.pyraloidea.org/Pages/Reports/TaxonReport.aspx |title=GlobIZ search |website=Global Information System on Pyraloidea |accessdate=2011-09-29}}
| synonyms = *Eucardinia caricae Dyar, 1913
- Homalopalpia dalera Dyar, 1914
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Davara caricae, the papaya webworm moth, is a species of snout moth in the genus Davara. It was described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1913, and is known from Panama,[http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/pyraloidea/pyralidae/phycitinae/davara/index.html Davara] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms Puerto Rico and Florida.