diff --git a/tests/test_linkextractors.py b/tests/test_linkextractors.py
index d992a5eae..3ad1abea5 100644
--- a/tests/test_linkextractors.py
+++ b/tests/test_linkextractors.py
@@ -823,6 +823,7 @@ class LxmlLinkExtractorTestCase(Base.LinkExtractorTestCase):
         <a href="http://example.org/item3.html">Good Link 2</a>
         """
         response = HtmlResponse("http://example.org/index.html", body=html)
+        lx = self.extractor_cls()
         self.assertEqual(
             [link for link in lx.extract_links(response)],
             [