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.[1] The pygmy white-eye is endemic to the island of Borneo.[2] The thick-billed heleia, occurs on Flores and Sumbawa.[3]
The genus Heleia was introduced in 1865 by the German ornithologist Gustav Hartlaub to accommodate the spot-breasted 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]
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