these delicate nocturnal flyers from Costa Rica aren’t moths, but derbid planthoppers, relatives of lanternflies and flatids. derbids are often quite oddly shaped for hemipterans; these three (all in the subtribe Derbini) have strikingly broad, flat wings always held open and coated in a waxy powder.
their wispy texture and glowing halo when illumated by a flashlight gave them an ethereally angelic appearance as they fluttered through the nighttime rainforest.
regrettably this is a much understudied group and I couldn’t find a good source for identification for any of them.
The British Home Office refused to grant a visa to a Palestinian refugee even though she had received a full scholarship to study for a doctorate at the London School of Economics. It claimed a visa would "harm the public interest." No further explanation.