Bug and Insect Illustration (Illustrator)

Colored pencil and watercolor of an Aquatic Sowbug from above, with a mottled segmented shell and long antennae.

Aquatic Sowbug (Asellus aquaticus), colored pencil and watercolor

Commissioned by: Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

About aquatic sowbugs:
Aquatic sowbugs are also referred to as water lice.

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda (having a segmented body with appendages on each segment)
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Isopoda
Family: Aselidae
Genus: Asellus
Species: A. aquaticus