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 (spot-breasted heleia) Hartlaub, 1865 | |
Heleia is a genus of birds in the white-eye family Zosteropidae. One species, the spot-breasted heleia is restricted to the island of Timor. The pygmy white-eye 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 spot-breasted heleia. The name is from Ancient Greek eleia, an unidentified small bird mentioned by the Greek scholar Callimachus.
The genus contains ten species:
- Mees's white-eye (Heleia javanica)
- Grey-hooded white-eye (Heleia pinaiae)
- Pygmy white-eye (Heleia squamifrons)
- Mindanao white-eye (Heleia goodfellowi)
- Streak-headed white-eye (Heleia squamiceps)
- Cream-browed white-eye (Heleia superciliaris)
- Crested white-eye (Heleia dohertyi)
- Spot-breasted heleia (Heleia muelleri)
- Thick-billed heleia (Heleia crassirostris)
- Yellow-ringed white-eye (Heleia wallacei)
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