Help with scorpion

[Joshua spoderman]

Is this scorpion premolt or just fat and what species is this?
P.s. I just got this scorpion 3 days ago

 

[moricollins]

Question: what was it labeled as when you bought it?

 

[Joshua spoderman]

Question: what was it labeled as when you bought it?

I'm just making sure i got an emperor scorpion

 

[Albireo Wulfbooper]

I'm just making sure i got an emperor scorpion

Claw shape looks more like Heterometrus to me, but I don't really have experience of Pandinus babies, so I could well be wrong.

In babies, "fat" and "premoult" are pretty darned close to synonymous, since they moult quite frequently at that stage. I'd expect a moult soon.

 

[Lewis Catlin]

Instar 3 Heterometrus scorpling for comparison. Not to good at identifying scorplings.

 

[Dr SkyTower]

it looks to be a species of asian forest scorpion, possibly petersii or spinifer. It's a juvenile (they have white telsons) and its fatness could be due to being in premolt.