diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-httpx/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/httpx/__init__.py b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-httpx/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/httpx/__init__.py
index 2a82a123f9..d92463fc27 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-httpx/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/httpx/__init__.py
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-httpx/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/httpx/__init__.py
@@ -678,6 +678,7 @@ def handle_request(
                     span.set_attribute(
                         ERROR_TYPE, type(exception).__qualname__
                     )
+                    span.record_exception(exception) 
                     metric_attributes[ERROR_TYPE] = type(
                         exception
                     ).__qualname__
@@ -879,6 +880,7 @@ async def handle_async_request(
                     span.set_attribute(
                         ERROR_TYPE, type(exception).__qualname__
                     )
+                    span.record_exception(exception) 
                     metric_attributes[ERROR_TYPE] = type(
                         exception
                     ).__qualname__
@@ -1116,6 +1118,7 @@ def _handle_request_wrapper(  # pylint: disable=too-many-locals
                     span.set_attribute(
                         ERROR_TYPE, type(exception).__qualname__
                     )
+                    span.record_exception(exception) 
                     metric_attributes[ERROR_TYPE] = type(
                         exception
                     ).__qualname__
@@ -1238,6 +1241,7 @@ async def _handle_async_request_wrapper(  # pylint: disable=too-many-locals
                     span.set_attribute(
                         ERROR_TYPE, type(exception).__qualname__
                     )
+                    span.record_exception(exception) 
                 raise exception.with_traceback(exception.__traceback__)
 
             if duration_histogram_old is not None: