Semnopithecus Desmarest, 1822 . Mammalogie, in Encycl. Meth, 2(Suppl.):532.
TYPE SPECIES: Simia entellus Dufresne, 1797 .
COMMENTS: Considered a subgenus of Presbytis by Szalay and Delson (1979); separated from Presbytis by Groves (1989).