diff --git a/pandas/tests/tslibs/test_parsing.py b/pandas/tests/tslibs/test_parsing.py
index b0f7f755518a4..701c11bb7f52d 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/tslibs/test_parsing.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/tslibs/test_parsing.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ def test_parsing_tzlocal_deprecated():
         assert isinstance(res.tzinfo, tzlocal)
 
         with tm.assert_produces_warning(FutureWarning, match=msg):
-            res = parsing.parse_datetime_string(dtstr)
+            res = parsing.py_parse_datetime_string(dtstr)
         assert isinstance(res.tzinfo, tzlocal)