diff --git a/tests/test_spider.py b/tests/test_spider.py
index ee159a134..36abdd1c5 100644
--- a/tests/test_spider.py
+++ b/tests/test_spider.py
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ from scrapy.spiders import (
     XMLFeedSpider,
 )
 from scrapy.spiders.init import InitSpider
+from scrapy.utils.defer import deferred_f_from_coro_f
 from scrapy.utils.test import get_crawler, get_reactor_settings
 from tests import get_testdata, tests_datadir
 
@@ -774,6 +775,24 @@ Sitemap: /sitemap-relative-url.xml
             ),
         )
 
+    @deferred_f_from_coro_f
+    async def test_sitemap_urls(self):
+        class TestSpider(self.spider_class):
+            name = "test"
+            sitemap_urls = ["https://toscrape.com/sitemap.xml"]
+
+        crawler = get_crawler(TestSpider)
+        spider = TestSpider.from_crawler(crawler)
+        with warnings.catch_warnings():
+            warnings.simplefilter("error")
+            requests = [request async for request in spider.start()]
+
+        assert len(requests) == 1
+        request = requests[0]
+        assert request.url == "https://toscrape.com/sitemap.xml"
+        assert request.dont_filter is False
+        assert request.callback == spider._parse_sitemap
+
 
 class TestDeprecation:
     def test_crawl_spider(self):