diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-tornado/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/tornado/client.py b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-tornado/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/tornado/client.py
index 35c3eab7eb..fa0e53bf95 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-tornado/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/tornado/client.py
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-tornado/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/tornado/client.py
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ def _finish_tracing_callback(
 
     exc = future.exception()
     if exc:
-        description = f"{type(exc).__name__}: {exc}"
+        description = f"{type(exc).__qualname__}: {exc}"
         if isinstance(exc, HTTPError):
             response = exc.response
             status_code = exc.code