Heleia

Heleia is a genus of birds in the white-eye family Zosteropidae. One species, the Timor heleia is restricted to the island of Timor.^[1] The pygmy heleia is endemic to the island of Borneo.^[2] The thick-billed heleia, occurs on Flores and Sumbawa.^[3]

Heleia
Mees's white-eye, Heleia javanica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Zosteropidae
Genus:	Heleia Hartlaub, 1865
Type species
Heleia muelleri (Timor heleia) Hartlaub, 1865

The genus Heleia was introduced in 1865 by the German ornithologist Gustav Hartlaub to accommodate the Timor heleia.^[4] The name is from Ancient Greek eleia, an unidentified small bird mentioned by the Greek scholar Callimachus.^[5]

The genus contains ten species:^[6]

• 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)