diff --git a/src/python/pants/backend/python/dependency_inference/default_module_mapping.py b/src/python/pants/backend/python/dependency_inference/default_module_mapping.py
index 68cd31506f4..6467c2f91db 100644
--- a/src/python/pants/backend/python/dependency_inference/default_module_mapping.py
+++ b/src/python/pants/backend/python/dependency_inference/default_module_mapping.py
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
     "python-jose": ("jose",),
     "python-pptx": ("pptx",),
     "pyyaml": ("yaml",),
-    "pymongo": ("bson", "gridfs"),
+    "pymongo": ("bson", "gridfs", "pymongo"),
     "pymupdf": ("fitz",),
     "pytest-runner": ("ptr",),
     "scikit-image": ("skimage",),