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About 1 inch spider with a unique 'trap-door' like web built about 6 feet on a tree trunk next to a stream deep inside the rainforest. Upon removing the 'lid' the natural cavity was lined with fine silk (hence the blue tinge due to the flash). No photo prominantly showing eye-pattern, one image produced here photographed by Rohit Nandakumar. Identification is tentative, because this family is not reported from anywhere in India except the Himalayan region.

Gnathopalystes pair
I was digging my archives today for some photo, but somehow I didn't get that. But I ended up getting this pic, which was also in my search from long time!
Its Huntsman spiders mating .
march 2020,
Indraprastha,
Mysuru