glossy trails on my leaves

hello guys , i am completely new to growing this is my 1st plant. everything is looking good except i am noticing glossy trails on my leaves, to be followed a week later with thin lines of webs attached from the leaves to the wall in my room or other leaves on the plant. some areas of the leaves are brittle and lacking life. using a jewelry loop i inspected the leaves up and down for spider mites and absolutely no signs of any foriegn life. the plant over all is extremely beautiful and lushious, what could this be? please help1

ps.
i have seen 2 ant like insects flying around my plant iv killed every last one i thought thripes but there are none on my plant. im getting worried.
i will post a pic upon request

Oh yes, sounds like thripppppps. And some cool garden spiders. Pic most likely will help. I'm just shooting in the dark.

I gotta agree with mongo frog.I've just cured the same problem.My bottom leaves had little silver trails all over em but the rest of the plant was looking amazing and when i looked closely with 35x magnification i could see these little "ant like insects" and their lavae which resemble tiny brownish maggots.Got a bottle of "plant vitality"(it's also known as dyn-a-mite) as recommended by my trustworthy grow shop.Mixed up 25ml per litre of water and gave them a good spray all over the tops and bottoms of the leaves,the stem and the top of the soil.Totally eradicated and what with the spray being some sort of nutrient,the plants looked even better afterwards.There is some substance called spinosad that's contained in some insectoside sprays which totally gets rid of them too.