diff --git a/tests/test_closespider.py b/tests/test_closespider.py
index 9810d10fb..9a837350f 100644
--- a/tests/test_closespider.py
+++ b/tests/test_closespider.py
@@ -60,6 +60,23 @@ class TestCloseSpider(TestCase):
         itemcount = crawler.stats.get_value("item_scraped_count")
         self.assertLessEqual(pagecount, close_on + itemcount)
 
+    @defer.inlineCallbacks
+    def test_closespider_pagecount_no_item_with_pagecount(self):
+        close_on_pagecount_no_item = 5
+        close_on_pagecount = 20
+        crawler = get_crawler(
+            FollowAllSpider,
+            {
+                "CLOSESPIDER_PAGECOUNT_NO_ITEM": close_on_pagecount_no_item,
+                "CLOSESPIDER_PAGECOUNT": close_on_pagecount,
+            },
+        )
+        yield crawler.crawl(mockserver=self.mockserver)
+        reason = crawler.spider.meta["close_reason"]
+        self.assertEqual(reason, "closespider_pagecount_no_item")
+        pagecount = crawler.stats.get_value("response_received_count")
+        self.assertLess(pagecount, close_on_pagecount)
+
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def test_closespider_errorcount(self):
         close_on = 5