The underside is pale, without markings.
The female is plumaged like the male, but is duller and has a grey head with a different pattern from the male, though it bears a hint of the pale head markings of the male.
Limnephilus major, like the other L. incisus group larva of the Churchill area (see L. ademusdiscussion above), has a solid brown background color to the head with darker muscle scars and only pale frontoclypeal markings.
The commonest variant has a dark reddish-violet or brownish-purple helmet and a pale-coloured labellum [ 26], but the helmet can also be green flecked with purple, dull rose outside and green within and with pale rose markings, greenish-white with pink veins, or reddish purple.
Their compact plumage is a dull or glossy gray, brown, or black, sometimes with pale or white markings on the throat, neck, belly, or rump.
Females' chelicerae are pale yellow with black markings at the ends, while males' orange-brown with darker markings, and those of both sexes have pale orange and white hairs.
T. cincinnatus, 5 to 10 centimetres (about 2 to 4 inches) long and pale red, has lacelike markings on the backside and gills with many unbranched filaments in two separate rows.
Ventrally, they are usually white or pale with distinctive dark markings by which individual mantas can be recognized.
The abdomens of females are pale yellow with black markings and the upper sides have scattered white and orange-brown hairs.
The pronotum of H. vexa is pale yellow without obvious markings other than the anterior and posterior darkening evident on some specimens.
