diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifier_cataloger_test.go b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifier_cataloger_test.go
index 721ee9ee045..4e283a56a1e 100644
--- a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifier_cataloger_test.go
+++ b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifier_cataloger_test.go
@@ -359,7 +359,17 @@ func Test_Cataloger_PositiveCases(t *testing.T) {
 				Metadata:  metadata("haproxy-binary"),
 			},
 		},
-
+		{
+			logicalFixture: "haproxy/3.1-dev0/linux-amd64",
+			expected: pkg.Package{
+				Name:      "haproxy",
+				Version:   "3.1-dev0",
+				Type:      "binary",
+				PURL:      "pkg:generic/haproxy@3.1-dev0",
+				Locations: locations("haproxy"),
+				Metadata:  metadata("haproxy-binary"),
+			},
+		},
 		{
 			logicalFixture: "helm/3.11.1/linux-amd64",
 			expected: pkg.Package{
diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifiers.go b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifiers.go
index 24c514c7e45..46afa87f5cb 100644
--- a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifiers.go
+++ b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifiers.go
@@ -190,8 +190,8 @@ func DefaultClassifiers() []Classifier {
 			Class:    "haproxy-binary",
 			FileGlob: "**/haproxy",
 			EvidenceMatcher: evidenceMatchers(
-				FileContentsVersionMatcher(`(?m)HA-Proxy version (?P<version>[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)`),
-				FileContentsVersionMatcher(`(?m)(?P<version>[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)-[0-9a-zA-Z]{7}.+HAProxy version`),
+				FileContentsVersionMatcher(`(?m)HA-Proxy version (?P<version>[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(\.|-dev)[0-9]+)`),
+				FileContentsVersionMatcher(`(?m)(?P<version>[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(\.|-dev)[0-9]+)-[0-9a-zA-Z]{7}.+HAProxy version`),
 			),
 			Package: "haproxy",
 			PURL:    mustPURL("pkg:generic/haproxy@version"),
diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/haproxy/3.1-dev0/linux-amd64/haproxy b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/haproxy/3.1-dev0/linux-amd64/haproxy
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..94a91b1ad84
Binary files /dev/null and b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/haproxy/3.1-dev0/linux-amd64/haproxy differ
diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/config.yaml b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/config.yaml
index 15273d33d2f..78d8ba4b8cf 100644
--- a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/config.yaml
+++ b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/config.yaml
@@ -106,6 +106,13 @@ from-images:
     paths:
       - /usr/local/sbin/haproxy
 
+  - version: 3.1-dev0
+    images:
+      - ref: haproxy:3.1-dev0@sha256:eba1aac9aa6ea84869bd2ecae79792a934563fd731eddf724eb3b12ef6a9b93f
+        platform: linux/amd64
+    paths:
+      - /usr/local/sbin/haproxy
+
   - version: 2.4.54
     images:
       - ref: httpd:2.4.54@sha256:c13feaef62bdb03e65e645f47d9780adea5a080c78eb9e4b3c32e861327262b4