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Hi.

The first fly is a Stratiomyid of genus Odontomyia. Probably O. argentata, but perhaps there are other species with such a silvery abdomen in Central Europe (I am familiar only with the North Eur. fauna). In Finland this species was very rare up to 1960, but it has since been collected in some numbers on many sites. Today it is by far the most common Odontomyia in our country.

Family Lauxaniidae. Most species in this family are pale yellow (some with black dots on wingds or abdmen). These do probably belong to genus Meiosimyza (=Lyciella)

The two 'scatophaids': The first one is actually a hoverfly of genus Brachyopa! These flies are quite unlike other syrphids in body shape and behaviour, and they are easily taken as muscoid flies in the field. The grey-thoraxed one is a Heleomyzid.

Finally, the small fly with banded wings is (as many have said before me) a hybotid of genus Tachydromia. Hybotidae was previously seen as a part of Empididae, but since the seventies it is considered a full family.

Jere