title: Animals named as black-legged
text: # 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
  