diff --git a/pygments/lexers/python.py b/pygments/lexers/python.py
index 8e1debace6..993a9359e0 100644
--- a/pygments/lexers/python.py
+++ b/pygments/lexers/python.py
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ def innerstring_rules(ttype):
                 'InterruptedError', 'IsADirectoryError', 'NotADirectoryError',
                 'PermissionError', 'ProcessLookupError', 'TimeoutError',
                 # others new in Python 3
-                'StopAsyncIteration'),
+                'StopAsyncIteration', 'ModuleNotFoundError', 'RecursionError'),
                 prefix=r'(?<!\.)', suffix=r'\b'),
              Name.Exception),
         ],
@@ -391,9 +391,9 @@ def innerstring_rules(ttype):
                 'Exception', 'FloatingPointError', 'FutureWarning', 'GeneratorExit',
                 'IOError', 'ImportError', 'ImportWarning', 'IndentationError',
                 'IndexError', 'KeyError', 'KeyboardInterrupt', 'LookupError',
-                'MemoryError', 'ModuleNotFoundError', 'NameError',
+                'MemoryError', 'NameError',
                 'NotImplementedError', 'OSError', 'OverflowError', 'OverflowWarning',
-                'PendingDeprecationWarning', 'RecursionError', 'ReferenceError',
+                'PendingDeprecationWarning', 'ReferenceError',
                 'RuntimeError', 'RuntimeWarning', 'StandardError', 'StopIteration',
                 'SyntaxError', 'SyntaxWarning', 'SystemError', 'SystemExit',
                 'TabError', 'TypeError', 'UnboundLocalError', 'UnicodeDecodeError',