diff --git a/test/tools/javac/lambda/StaticMethodNegTest.java b/test/tools/javac/lambda/StaticMethodNegTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2acfc84e44f2463e61c98de5c75a14479d159765
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/tools/javac/lambda/StaticMethodNegTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+/**
+ * @test    /nodynamiccopyright/
+ * @bug     8008337
+ * @author  sogoel
+ * @summary static method is called via super
+ * @compile/fail/ref=StaticMethodNegTest.out -XDrawDiagnostics StaticMethodNegTest.java
+ */
+
+interface A {
+  static String m() {
+    return "A";
+  }
+}
+
+interface B {
+  static String m() {
+    return "B";
+  }
+}
+
+interface AB extends A, B {
+ static String m() {
+   return A.super.m();
+ }
+}
+
diff --git a/test/tools/javac/lambda/StaticMethodNegTest.out b/test/tools/javac/lambda/StaticMethodNegTest.out
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6e2258e3899b0f8c8071b43ca642c64f6105f793
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/tools/javac/lambda/StaticMethodNegTest.out
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+StaticMethodNegTest.java:23:12: compiler.err.not.encl.class: A
+1 error