diff --git a/scrapy/utils/spider.py b/scrapy/utils/spider.py
index 4061d1ea3..72775df5c 100644
--- a/scrapy/utils/spider.py
+++ b/scrapy/utils/spider.py
@@ -2,14 +2,15 @@ import logging
 import inspect
 
 from scrapy.spiders import Spider
-from scrapy.utils.misc import  arg_to_iter
+from scrapy.utils.defer import deferred_from_coro
+from scrapy.utils.misc import arg_to_iter
 
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
 def iterate_spider_output(result):
-    return arg_to_iter(result)
+    return arg_to_iter(deferred_from_coro(result))
 
 
 def iter_spider_classes(module):
diff --git a/tests/spiders.py b/tests/spiders.py
index 39c8da0b6..e4f2d5474 100644
--- a/tests/spiders.py
+++ b/tests/spiders.py
@@ -1,14 +1,18 @@
 """
 Some spiders used for testing and benchmarking
 """
+import asyncio
 import time
 from urllib.parse import urlencode
 
+from twisted.internet import defer
+
 from scrapy.http import Request
 from scrapy.item import Item
 from scrapy.linkextractors import LinkExtractor
 from scrapy.spiders import Spider
 from scrapy.spiders.crawl import CrawlSpider, Rule
+from scrapy.utils.test import get_from_asyncio_queue
 
 
 class MockServerSpider(Spider):
@@ -83,6 +87,25 @@ class SimpleSpider(MetaSpider):
         self.logger.info("Got response %d" % response.status)
 
 
+class AsyncDefSpider(SimpleSpider):
+
+    name = 'asyncdef'
+
+    async def parse(self, response):
+        await defer.succeed(42)
+        self.logger.info("Got response %d" % response.status)
+
+
+class AsyncDefAsyncioSpider(SimpleSpider):
+
+    name = 'asyncdef_asyncio'
+
+    async def parse(self, response):
+        await asyncio.sleep(0.2)
+        status = await get_from_asyncio_queue(response.status)
+        self.logger.info("Got response %d" % status)
+
+
 class ItemSpider(FollowAllSpider):
 
     name = 'item'
diff --git a/tests/test_crawl.py b/tests/test_crawl.py
index f433fcea6..99b887ff6 100644
--- a/tests/test_crawl.py
+++ b/tests/test_crawl.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import json
 import logging
 
+from pytest import mark
 from testfixtures import LogCapture
 from twisted.internet import defer
 from twisted.trial.unittest import TestCase
@@ -10,7 +11,8 @@ from scrapy.http import Request
 from scrapy.utils.python import to_unicode
 from tests.mockserver import MockServer
 from tests.spiders import (FollowAllSpider, DelaySpider, SimpleSpider, BrokenStartRequestsSpider,
-                           SingleRequestSpider, DuplicateStartRequestsSpider, CrawlSpiderWithErrback)
+                           SingleRequestSpider, DuplicateStartRequestsSpider, CrawlSpiderWithErrback,
+                           AsyncDefSpider, AsyncDefAsyncioSpider)
 
 
 class CrawlTestCase(TestCase):
@@ -308,3 +310,19 @@ with multiples lines
         self.assertIn("[callback] status 201", str(log))
         self.assertIn("[errback] status 404", str(log))
         self.assertIn("[errback] status 500", str(log))
+
+    @defer.inlineCallbacks
+    def test_async_def_parse(self):
+        self.runner.crawl(AsyncDefSpider, self.mockserver.url("/status?n=200"), mockserver=self.mockserver)
+        with LogCapture() as log:
+            yield self.runner.join()
+        self.assertIn("Got response 200", str(log))
+
+    @mark.only_asyncio()
+    @defer.inlineCallbacks
+    def test_async_def_asyncio_parse(self):
+        runner = CrawlerRunner({"ASYNCIO_REACTOR": True})
+        runner.crawl(AsyncDefAsyncioSpider, self.mockserver.url("/status?n=200"), mockserver=self.mockserver)
+        with LogCapture() as log:
+            yield runner.join()
+        self.assertIn("Got response 200", str(log))