diff --git a/Doc/library/doctest.rst b/Doc/library/doctest.rst
index fa1b850c531346..8c28e4478bb70e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/doctest.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/doctest.rst
@@ -1502,7 +1502,7 @@ DocTestRunner objects
    :attr:`failures` and :attr:`skips` attributes. The :meth:`run` and
    :meth:`summarize` methods return a :class:`TestResults` instance.
 
-   :class:`DocTestParser` defines the following methods:
+   :class:`DocTestRunner` defines the following methods:
 
 
    .. method:: report_start(out, test, example)