| Order | COLEOPTERA |
| Sub-order | Polyphaga |
| Family | CETONIIDAE |
| Sub-family | CETONIINAE |
| Tribe | Goliathini |
| Genus | Anisorrhina (Melinesthes) Kraatz, 1880 |
| Taxon | Anisorrhina (Melinesthes) murphyi (Allard, 1988) |
| Citation | 2 |
| Type | 1 |
| Citations : | ||||
| Citation | Author, year | Country | Publication | Reference |
| Melinesthes murphyi nov.sp. | ALLARD Vincent, 1989 | Malawi | Description de trois nouvelles espèces du genre Melinesthes Kraatz (Coleoptera, Cetoniidae, Goliathini). | Bulletin de la Société Sciences Nat, 60 : 12-13. |
| Melinesthes murphyi Allard, 1988 | JOLY Claude, BERNAUD D., PIERRE J. & MURPHY R., 2008 | Malawi | Second entomological mission to Malawi. | Lambillionea, 108 (4-supp.), 47p. |
| Types : | |||||||||
| Type name | Type | Sex | Collection | Institution | Country | Region | Locality | Date | Collector |
| Melinesthes murphyi Allard, 1989 | Holotype | M | ALLARD Vincent (Belgique, Waterloo) | Collection personnelle Vincent Allard | Malawi | Dzelanyama | XI-1985 | Murphy |