Heleia
| Heleia | |
|---|---|
| Mees's white-eye, Heleia javanica | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Zosteropidae |
| Genus: | Heleia Hartlaub, 1865 |
| Type species | |
| Heleia muelleri (Timor heleia) Hartlaub, 1865 | |
Heleia is a genus of birds in the white-eye family Zosteropidae. One species, the Timor heleia is restricted to the island of Timor. The pygmy heleia is endemic to the island of Borneo. The thick-billed heleia, occurs on Flores and Sumbawa.
The genus Heleia was introduced in 1865 by the German ornithologist Gustav Hartlaub to accommodate the Timor heleia. The name is from Ancient Greek eleia, an unidentified small bird mentioned by the Greek scholar Callimachus.
The genus contains ten species:
- Javan heleia (Heleia javanica)
- Grey-hooded heleia (Heleia pinaiae)
- Pygmy heleia (Heleia squamifrons)
- Mindanao heleia (Heleia goodfellowi)
- Sulawesi heleia (Heleia squamiceps)
- Eyebrowed heleia (Heleia superciliaris)
- Crested heleia (Heleia dohertyi)
- Timor heleia (Heleia muelleri)
- Thick-billed heleia (Heleia crassirostris)
- Yellow-spectacled heleia (Heleia wallacei)