Bunopithecus

{{short description|Genus of apes}}

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| fossil_range = Middle Pleistocene

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| genus = Bunopithecus

| parent_authority = Matthew & Granger, 1923

| species = sericus

| authority = Matthew & Granger, 1923

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Bunopithecus is an extinct genus of primate represented by one species, Bunopithecus sericus, a gibbon or gibbon-like ape. Its remains were first discovered in Sichuan, China, in strata from the Middle Pleistocene.{{cite journal | last = Mootnick | first = A. | author2 = Groves, C. P. | year = 2005 | title = A new generic name for the hoolock gibbon (Hylobatidae) | journal = International Journal of Primatology | url = http://www.gibboncenter.org/publications/Hoolock%20Generic%20Name.pdf | issue = 4 | pages = 971–976 | doi = 10.1007/s10764-005-5332-4 | volume = 26 | s2cid = 8394136 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110927140841/http://www.gibboncenter.org/publications/Hoolock%20Generic%20Name.pdf | archivedate = 2011-09-27 }}

Although the three hoolock gibbon species were once included in the genus Bunopithecus, they have recently been removed and B. sericus remains as the only known species of this genus.