Proagoderus bicallosus has been listed as Least Concern. The species has a large range from southern to East Africa, although within this range, the area of occupancy is much more restricted. Its occupancy pattern is largely based on the area still occupied by elephants on sandy soils, which is no larger than 400,000 km². While the species will be affected by declines in monogastric herbivores, it should persist while sizeable elephant populations still exist. Its range also coincides with a number of game reserves which will provide protection to the species. However, a survey needs to be conducted in an area where there is a mosaic of soil types, such as in the Hluhluwe / iMfolozi Game Reserves in South Africa, in order to determine if it is associated primarily with deep sand, as this association would limit its potential area of occupancy and may lead to a revision of its extinction risk status.

This species was described from Sena on the River Zambezi on the coastal plain of central Mozambique (Klug 1855). It occupies a wide distribution centred on lower-lying, hot, dry savanna regions from southern to East Africa (Australian CSIRO 1970-1986 unpublished records, Schoolmeesters 2011). Within this range, the species has a patchy distribution pattern, which is most likely the result from dung type and soil type specialisation. Confirmed country records exist from Angola, South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Kenya, with unvalidated reports from Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania (A. Davis pers. comm. 2023).

This species has been recorded at low population density in regions where elephants still occur.

This species was classified within a group which showed a general occurrence in game reserves in a statistical analysis of dung beetle distribution in southern Africa that used recent data collected during the 1970's and 1980's (Davis 1997). These data were recorded primarily from game reserves or areas where elephants still occurred at the time of collection. These collection records were from deep sands and sandy loam in a usually open cover of shrubland, mopane or other woodland, primarily on coarse-fibred dung of monogastric herbivores (elephant, rhinoceros) (Australian CSIRO 1970-1986, unpublished records). However, the species was also trapped to bait comprising a mixture of human and cattle dung. Near game reserves it has also occasionally been recovered from cattle dung. In the savanna region of northeast Botswana at Savuti (Chobe National Park), the species was trapped to pig dung (0.2 per trap), elephant dung (0.8 per trap), and cattle dung (0.03 per trap) (Tshikae et al. 2008). It failed to be attracted to sheep dung and carrion comprising rotted chicken livers. In a subsequent quantitative study in Botswana, it was again trapped in the same order of abundance to elephant (20), pig (8) and cattle dung (2) but, also, to sheep dung (2) (Davis et al. 2020).

In southern Africa, it occurs in a large savanna block containing appropriate soil and dung types comprising, Angolan mopane woodlands (AT0725), Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands (AT0726), Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands (AT0709), Zambezian and Mopane woodlands (AT0725), Southern Africa bushveld (AT0717), Southern Miombo woodlands (AT0719), Maputaland coastal forest mosaic (AT0199), and Southern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic (AT0128). In East Africa, it has been recorded more sporadically in Serengeti volcanic grasslands (AT0714) and Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets (AT0711) possibly because sandy soils are less widespread (ecoregions are based on Olson et al. 2001).

Some environmental characteristics for 51 locality records are as follows: mean elevation: 673 ± 458 (S.D.), range: 3-1,476 m; annual rainfall: mean: 701 ± 180 (S.D.), range: 346-1,111 mm; annual temperature: mean: 22.1 ± 1.6 (S.D.), range: 18.5-26.8 °C (max. + min. / 2).

This species is, or was historically, impacted by the reduction in the range and population density of elephants and rhinoceros on sandy soils. Although it exhibits a secondary association with omnivore dung, 52 of 68 modern records are from reserves with monogastric herbivore populations (Davis et al. 2020). However, viable subpopulations are likely to be maintained as long as elephants continue to be protected across its wide range.

There is no use or trade information available for this species.

There are no species-specific conservation actions in place for this species. However, it is currently provided with a measure of protection, along with elephants and rhinoceros, in many reserves across the wide savanna range occupied by the species, e.g. Chobe National Park and Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana, Kruger National Park, iMfolozi and Hluhluwe Game Reserves in South Africa, Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe, and Manyara National Park in Tanzania. In order to provide a more accurate assessment of the extinction risk of this species, a survey needs to be conducted in an area where there is a mosaic of soil types, such as in the Hluhluwe / iMfolozi Game Reserves in South Africa, in order to determine if it is associated primarily with deep sand. Such an association would limit its potential range, however deep sands are common throughout much of its range.