diff --git a/setuptools/tests/test_sdist.py b/setuptools/tests/test_sdist.py
index 0112680e83f..e70346111f2 100644
--- a/setuptools/tests/test_sdist.py
+++ b/setuptools/tests/test_sdist.py
@@ -323,6 +323,10 @@ def test_write_manifest_allows_utf8_filenames(self):
         # The filelist should have been updated as well
         assert u_filename in mm.filelist.files
 
+    @pytest.mark.skipif(
+        "os.environ.get('PYTEST_XDIST_WORKER')",
+        reason="pytest-dev/pytest-xdist#843",
+    )
     def test_write_manifest_skips_non_utf8_filenames(self):
         """
         Files that cannot be encoded to UTF-8 (specifically, those that