diff --git a/src/tools/clangbackend/source/tokeninfo.cpp b/src/tools/clangbackend/source/tokeninfo.cpp
index b7e40d0327b..de40a954e16 100644
--- a/src/tools/clangbackend/source/tokeninfo.cpp
+++ b/src/tools/clangbackend/source/tokeninfo.cpp
@@ -372,7 +372,8 @@ void TokenInfo::identifierKind(const Cursor &cursor, Recursion recursion)
             break;
         case CXCursor_ParmDecl:
         case CXCursor_VarDecl:
-            variableKind(cursor);
+        case CXCursor_VariableRef:
+            variableKind(cursor.referenced());
             break;
         case CXCursor_DeclRefExpr:
             identifierKind(cursor.referenced(), Recursion::RecursivePass);
diff --git a/tests/unit/unittest/tokenprocessor-test.cpp b/tests/unit/unittest/tokenprocessor-test.cpp
index f48d546cb10..3383c9a3b93 100644
--- a/tests/unit/unittest/tokenprocessor-test.cpp
+++ b/tests/unit/unittest/tokenprocessor-test.cpp
@@ -1697,6 +1697,13 @@ TEST_F(TokenProcessor, DISABLED_NonConstArgumentConstructor)
     ASSERT_THAT(infos[3], HasMixin(HighlightingType::OutputArgument));
 }
 
+TEST_F(TokenProcessor, LambdaLocalVariableCapture)
+{
+    const auto infos = translationUnit.tokenInfosInRange(sourceRange(442, 47));
+
+    ASSERT_THAT(infos[4], HasOnlyType(HighlightingType::LocalVariable));
+}
+
 Data *TokenProcessor::d;
 
 void TokenProcessor::SetUpTestCase()