diff --git a/src/lxml/tests/test_etree.py b/src/lxml/tests/test_etree.py
index 0339796d..de584c56 100644
--- a/src/lxml/tests/test_etree.py
+++ b/src/lxml/tests/test_etree.py
@@ -3072,8 +3072,6 @@ class ETreeOnlyTestCase(HelperTestCase):
         el = etree.HTML('<hha:page-description>aa</hha:page-description>').find('.//page-description')
         if etree.LIBXML_VERSION < (2, 9, 11):
             self.assertEqual({'hha': None}, el.nsmap)
-        else:
-            self.assertEqual({}, el.nsmap)
 
     def test_getchildren(self):
         Element = self.etree.Element