My friend found this 2” tarantula yesterday on South Mountain in AZ. May be lighting but it doesn’t look like chalcodes to me. A bit late in the season for those, anyways, right? The palps do look a little bulbous, but I don’t have a different angle pic. Could this be mareki?
He looks mature to me, but the angles aren't super helpful as noted. A. mareki looks like a reasonable guess, or at least something related from the "Paloma" species group within the genus.
There is really no need to guess at this using pictures since the revision of the Aphonopelma species of the USA was published back in 2016. Here is the link... https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/6264/
From the aforementioned link, try keying this one using the section "Key to the male Aphonopelma of Arizona."
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