Editing Blue monkey (section)

{{Short description|Species of Old World monkey}}
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{{Speciesbox
| name = Blue monkey<ref name=MSW3>{{MSW3 Groves|pages=157|id=12100475}}</ref>
| image = Blue monkey (Cercopithecus mitis stuhlmanni).jpg  
| image_caption = ''C. m. stuhlmanni''<br>[[Kakamega Forest]], [[Kenya]]
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Butynski, T.M. |author2=de Jong, Y.A. |date=2019 |title=''Cercopithecus mitis'' |volume=2019 |page=e.T4221A196007901 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T4221A196007901.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}</ref>
| genus = Cercopithecus
| species = mitis
| authority = [[Johann Wolf (naturalist)|Wolf]], 1822
| range_map = Cercopithecus mitis distribution map, crop.png
| range_map_caption = {{legend0|#e60000|&nbsp;Range (note: includes ranges of closely related [[Sykes' monkey|Sykes']], [[silver monkey|silver]], and [[golden monkey]]s)}}
| subdivision_ranks = Subspecies
| subdivision = 6, see text
}}

The '''blue monkey''' or '''diademed monkey''' ('''''Cercopithecus mitis''''') is a species of [[Old World monkey]]<ref name=Forster>{{cite journal |last1=Förster |first1=Steffen |last2=Cords |first2=Marina |year=2005 |title=Socialization of infant blue monkeys (''Cercopithecus mitis stuhlmanni''): Allomaternal interactions and sex differences |journal=Behaviour |volume=142 |issue=7 |pages=869–896 |doi=10.1163/1568539055010138 |s2cid=85928885 |url=https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8ZC8DMK/download }}</ref><ref>Hutchins, M., Kleiman, G.D., Geist, V., McDada, M.C. 2004. Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia. 14:2. Gale Group.</ref> native to [[Central Africa|Central]] and [[East Africa]], ranging from the upper [[Congo River]] basin east to the [[East African Rift]] and south to northern [[Angola]] and [[Zambia]]. It sometimes includes [[Sykes' monkey|Sykes']], [[Silver monkey|silver]], and [[golden monkey]]s as [[subspecies]].<ref name=MSW3/>