These appear a lot at my uni, in Northeastern Brazil, I usually just pick them up with a small plastic bucket and let them go at the forest, a particularly small one ppeared and I decided to try to keep it, this particular one in the photo was 5~6" I believe.
I see, so Lasiodora, will look a bit more into it and ask around the uni if someone knows for sure... Whenever a big one appears I catch it and release it inside the fence of the protected forest of the uni, unfortunately it's almost a daily thing to see one or two that went beyond the fence and got stomped by someone who doesn't know better
Upon maturity, males will posses emboli (male reproductive organs). This makes the pedipalps appear to be bolbus (circled pink). Some species including those from the genus Lasiodora will posses tibial spurs/hooks upon maturity (shown with yellow arrows).
I spoke with a local hobbyst who said it probably was a L. parahybana, based on the place I found it, will confirm it with some biology teachers in the uni, but yeah, I'll just say it's likely a L. parahybana;
Also, it is surprisingly tame for a WC, I'm really loving this little guy;
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