Animals named as black-legged
# Animals named as black-legged

A wide variety of animals have names describing them as black-legged.

* Birds:
   * Black-legged kittiwake
   * Black-legged seriema
   * Black-legged dacnis
* Amphibians:
   * Black-legged dart frog
* Invertebrates:
   * Arthropods
      * Insects
         * Blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis
         * Black-legged water-snipefly, Atherix marginata
         * Black-legged horsefly, Hybomitra micans
         * Violet black-legged robberfly, Dioctria atricapilla
         * Blackleg tortoiseshell, another name for the large tortoiseshell butterfly
