Heleia
Genus of birds
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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]
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| Heleia | |
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| 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 | |
Taxonomy
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 – montane Java and Bali
- Grey-hooded heleia, Heleia pinaiae – montane central Seram (central east Moluccas)
- Pygmy heleia, Heleia squamifrons – Borneo
- Mindanao heleia, Heleia goodfellowi – montane Mindanao (south Philippines)
- Sulawesi heleia, Heleia squamiceps – montane Sulawesi
- Eyebrowed heleia, Heleia superciliaris – montane Sumbawa and Flores (west, central Lesser Sunda Islands)
- Crested heleia, Heleia dohertyi – Sumbawa to Flores (west, central Lesser Sunda Islands)
- Timor heleia, Heleia muelleri – Timor (east Lesser Sunda Islands)
- Thick-billed heleia, Heleia crassirostris – Sumbawa and Flores (west, central Lesser Sunda Islands)
- Yellow-spectacled heleia, Heleia wallacei – Sumbawa to Sumba and Lembata (west, central Lesser Sunda Islands)
