diff --git a/dev-python/pygments/pygments-2.16.1.ebuild b/dev-python/pygments/pygments-2.16.1.ebuild
index f3a2c5362ecc2..781fe60b07a32 100644
--- a/dev-python/pygments/pygments-2.16.1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/pygments/pygments-2.16.1.ebuild
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ BDEPEND="
 EPYTEST_DESELECT=(
 	# fuzzing tests, very slow
 	tests/test_basic_api.py::test_random_input
+	# incompatibility with python-ctags3, apparently
+	# https://github.com/pygments/pygments/issues/2486
+	tests/test_html_formatter.py::test_ctags
 )
 
 distutils_enable_tests pytest