Tell me what country you found them in so that I never EVER go there.
* Sphecius antennatus (Klug, 1845) (Southern and Eastern Europe, Middle East, Central Asia)
* Sphecius citrinus Arnold, 1929 (South Africa)
* Sphecius claripennis Morice, 1911 (North Africa)
* Sphecius conicus (Germar, 1817) (Balkans, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Greece)
o Sphecius conicus creticus de Beaumont, 1965 (Crete)
o Sphecius conicus syriacus (Klug, 1845) (Syria to China)
* Sphecius convallis Patton, 1879 – Pacific cicada killer (California, Mexico)
* Sphecius grandidieri (de Saussure, 1887) (Madagascar)
* Sphecius grandis (Say, 1823) – Western cicada killer (Nevada, Arkansas, Colorado, Mexico)
* Sphecius hemixanthopterus Morice, 1911 (Algeria)
* Sphecius hogardii (Latreille, 1806) – Caribbean cicada killer (West Indies, Florida)
o Sphecius hogardii bahamas Krombein, 1953 (Bahama Islands: Bimini)
* Sphecius intermedius Handlirsch, 1895 (Algeria)
* Sphecius lutescens (Radoszkowski, 1877) (Central Asia)
* Sphecius malayanus Handlirsch, 1895 (Indonesia: Timor, Sumbava)
* Sphecius milleri R.Turner, 1915 (Zambia)
o Sphecius milleri aurantiacus Arnold, 1940 (Ethiopia)
* Sphecius nigricornis (Dufour, 1838) (Southern and Eastern Europe, North Africa)
* Sphecius pectoralis (F.Smith, 1856) (Australia)
* Sphecius persa Gussakovskij, 1933 (Iran, Afghanistan)
* Sphecius quartinae (Gribodo, 1884) (Guinea, Somalia)
* Sphecius schulthessi Roth, 1951 (North Africa)
* Sphecius speciosus (Drury, 1773) – Eastern cicada killer (Central and North America: Honduras to Canada)
* Sphecius spectabilis (Taschenberg, 1875) – South American cicada killer (Brazil, Argentina)
* Sphecius uljanini (Radoszkowski, 1877) (Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran)
Anywhere warm and with Cicadas
Edit: The first one is a Japanese Hornet iirc.