diff --git a/sgqlc/endpoint/httpx.py b/sgqlc/endpoint/httpx.py
index ee32a04..ea516d5 100644
--- a/sgqlc/endpoint/httpx.py
+++ b/sgqlc/endpoint/httpx.py
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ class HTTPXEndpoint(HTTPEndpoint):
     :errors: list of errors, which are objects with the key "message" and
        optionally others, such as "location" (for errors matching GraphQL
        input). Instead of raising exceptions, such as
-       :exc:`requests.exceptions.HTTPError` or
+       :exc:`requests.exceptions.HTTPStatusError` or
        :exc:`json.JSONDecodeError` those are stored in the
        "exception" key.
 
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ async def runner():
                 try:
                     response = await self.client.send(req)
                     return self._parse_httpx_response(query, response)
-                except httpx.HTTPError as exc:
+                except httpx.HTTPStatusError as exc:
                     return self._log_httpx_error(query, req, exc)
 
             return runner()
diff --git a/tests/test-endpoint-httpx.py b/tests/test-endpoint-httpx.py
index c046948..8c4cbf7 100644
--- a/tests/test-endpoint-httpx.py
+++ b/tests/test-endpoint-httpx.py
@@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ def test_server_http_non_conforming_json(respx_mock):
     check_respx_route(route)
 
 
-def test_server_http_transport_error(respx_mock):
+async def test_server_http_transport_error(respx_mock):
     'Test if a transport error will get passed back to the caller'
 
     route = respx_mock.route(name='graphql', method='POST', url=test_url).mock(
@@ -566,6 +566,13 @@ def test_server_http_transport_error(respx_mock):
 
     check_respx_route(route)
 
+    endpoint = HTTPXEndpoint(test_url, client=httpx.AsyncClient())
+
+    with pytest.raises(httpx.RemoteProtocolError):
+        await endpoint(graphql_query)
+
+    check_respx_route(route)
+
 
 def test_server_error_broken_json(respx_mock):
     'Test if HTTP error with broken JSON payload is handled'